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CSS Mania - The most updated cssshowcase all over the globe

10000 screenshots on its database. 10000$ monthly incomes with no google ads

  • URL: http://cssmania.com/
  • Established: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:00:00 GMT
  • Uniques/Month: 3,229,712
  • Page views/month: 21,863,934
  • Monthly Revenue: 9975$
  • Google Pagerank: 6
  • Listed: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:36:02 GMT

Description:

CSSMANIA.COM - The most updated and visited css showcase all over the globe.

Live since March 2004, with 10000 sites showcases and growing 10% unique visitors monthly.

Revenue Details:

No google ads, no ad network, just direct invoices to customers contacting from http://cssmania.com/ads

A trial with google ads showed a monthly income of 3400$/monthly.

2-3 customers contacting to advertise their product daily. 60-90 advertisers/monthly could make the incomes go up to 25000$/monthly.

No ads included in feed. Potential increase in the future.

Traffic Details:

 

Growing 10% monthly.

Alexa Ranking: 13698

PR: 6 (No SEO has been done in 5 years)

70.74% direct traffic.

06:34s average time/vist

12430 feedburner readers.

6700 del.icio.us links 

CSS Mania's primary audience is made up of professional web designers (most of them with blogs) and regular people who love CSS. These regular people are discerning customers, as they have special intuition about high quality products.

The reason behind the auction.

UPDATED: 21:50PM (21st March GMT+1) - Stats include feed accesses

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  1. Posted date:
    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:01:49 GMT
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    w0w .. the price is so huge .... almost 6xRevenue :( ... i understand that cssmania is one of the best css showcase site, but you are asking too much ... and the revenue sources are not very stable ... in 6 years a lot of things could change

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    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:08:53 GMT
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    50x Rev for a CSS Showcase site, you've have got to be kidding me. Drop a zero, and maybe we can talk.

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    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:57:46 GMT
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    not to be as crass as the other 2 resposnses, but that min bid is unrealistic. especially for a css site, it's a ficle market, they are popular now but who says that trend will stay? i'd bid for 10-12 months profit.

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    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:05:09 GMT
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    @outlook: It has been stable in the last 3 years... it will remain.
    @mpcovcd: No dropping, sorry.
    @drfoxxx: Same as i sait to @outlook, they have been popular in the last 3 years, and they will continue being popular.

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    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:15:32 GMT
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    Keep dreaming

    No one would pay that ridiculous price.

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  6. Posted date:
    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:37:33 GMT
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    @iamnet: That's what it costs.

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  7. Posted date:
    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:27:45 GMT
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    iamnet always keep bugging people in their salesthreads so don`t mind him. Price is high, but it`s a really nice site and Im sure if someone buys it they will be happy for years to come, and there is always room for growth.

    Good lck with sale!

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    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:02:11 GMT
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    @mpcovcd, it's actually 4 years and 2 months when you'd get your money back. So it's not a bad investment.

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    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:09:06 GMT
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    @boycoda : much less time if you consider we are not advertising all what we receive in our inbox. No porn, no products we haven´t tested before, none of them are advertised. The advertisers must have a good design on their side to be advertised. Saying yes to everything we receive in our inbox can be like 30000$/monthly.

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    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:26:06 GMT
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    why are you selling the site ?

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  11. Posted date:
    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:58:30 GMT
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    @outlook: why not?

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  12. Posted date:
    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:49:49 GMT
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    this is not an answer ... you must have a reason ?!

    do you have a BIN in mind ?

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    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:47:37 GMT
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    @outlook: Since 2 years ago, cssmania has been giving its money to NGOs. All Cssmania incomes except the money to pay server and bandwith. There is an NGO donation behind all this.

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    Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:59:29 GMT
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    @outlook: we have also other projects going on behind the scenes. Projects that might need part of this money to launch as we want. The same way we did with CSS Mania.

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    Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:28:08 GMT
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    can you show proof of traffic and revenue?****

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    Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:18:38 GMT
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    yesterday the traffic and pageviews you had up there were drastically different why the sudden change and to these numbers?

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    Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:52:12 GMT
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    He's probably just proving the point that he doesn't want to sell. You can imagine how many people must ask how much he wants for it, he's showing them to shut their mouth or pay the heavy toll. If you're not going to think of buying or just want to burn him, there is no reason for you to reply to this auction.

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    Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:56:11 GMT
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    @climaxdesigns: There was a small problem when filling in the data.
    @htmlguy: Thanks.
    @boycoda: Yes we will, don´t worry.

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    Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:03:06 GMT
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    iamnet sounds just like that patricio character that was banned a while back. Perhaps I'll bring him to SitePoint's attention, as well...

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    Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:56:46 GMT
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    Care to share that now then? Because everyone knows CSSMania is a largely recognised site, doesn't mean you don't have to show evidence of revenue and traffic. I think everyone would like to see this. And these assumptions to where people are saying they're not actually wanting to sell it. Then why the hell would they be so retarded to put it up for sale?

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    Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:08:03 GMT
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    To prove a point. Lol @ you idiots for taking the thread seriously. The internet has no humor and too many people are to shallow to understand the meaning of a sale thread like this and its corresponding blog.

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    Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:05:37 GMT
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    @boycoda: we are tired of mails asking about how much is cssmania. We are tired of answering daily 2-3 mails. That's why we decided to announce it here. So everybody knows now, how much is CSS Mania, and we can rest in peace. We will not loose too much time neither in this forum explaining all this again.

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    Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:50:41 GMT
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    "we are tired of mails asking about how much is cssmania. We are tired of answering daily 2-3 mails. That's why we decided to announce it here. So everybody knows now, how much is CSS Mania, and we can rest in peace. We will not loose too much time neither in this forum explaining all this again."

    Wow. Rest in Peace? Haha.

    Why not just ignore the emails? Easy solution than spending $40 to prove a point?

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    Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:36:53 GMT
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    Good luck with the sell. Its a great project.

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    Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:50:42 GMT
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    "To prove a point. Lol @ you idiots for taking the thread seriously. The internet has no humor and too many people are to shallow to understand the meaning of a sale thread like this and its corresponding blog."

    I thought this place was a place to buy and sell sites not run prank jokes or useless threads about sites whose owners arent really going to sell, call me an idiot for thinking that this was a serious sale. Call me an idiot for thinking that in 2008 they could not ignore or send to spam all those 'annoying' emails, call me an idiot for thinking they could have done better by simply directing people to a blog post that says CSS Mania is not for sale at this time and not waste idiot s time like mine who know nothing of the 'annoying' emails they get and actually thought this was real and was in the process of trying get bank funds and other business partners together to try to purchase it... but whatever just call me an idiot.

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  26. Posted date:
    Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:24:13 GMT
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    @walterkg: Thanks
    @climaxdesigns: Prank Jokes? If you have 500k$, CSS Mania is yours. We never said is not for sale in the thread.
    @nrlmedia: It was 70$. We are not trying to prove a point!

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  27. Posted date:
    Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:09:40 GMT
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    @climaxdesigns: you are right ;)

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    Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:01:06 GMT
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    OMG! LOL forget it!

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  29. Posted date:
    Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:58:08 GMT
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    Wow, if you don't like the price, don't comment & don't bid, I hate harrassment like this. He will get the message a bit better if nobody comments or bids, not the constant bashing from people who don't even have more than 4 digits in their wallets.

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  30. Posted date:
    Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:44:23 GMT
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    @alfredn: Thanks! xD

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  31. Posted date:
    Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:23:31 GMT
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    great sale.

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  32. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:14:31 GMT
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    great site man. It worths the money and more.

    good luck with the sale.

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    Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:03:40 GMT
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    @dugu: thanks!
    @papaman: thanks! Seems people don´t think the same as you.

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  34. Posted date:
    Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:59:39 GMT
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    Great Site man visit this site regularly....

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    Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:59:09 GMT
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    Good Luck with the sale. Comment made and removed to be reviewed by seller only :)

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  36. Posted date:
    Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:20:46 GMT
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    this auction is Advertising of website. There is no way for $500000 bid nor even for 250000.

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  37. Posted date:
    Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:57:02 GMT
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    @lakinder: what makes you think that?

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